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Also: Narcissu remake project; WORLD END ECONOMiCA 2 to be released this month

Video game localizer and publisher Sekai Project revealed at its panel at Anime Expo on Saturday that it will release the following games: AKABEi SOFT2's G-senjou no Maou - The Devil on G-String, Purple Software's Chrono Clock, and Regista/Yeti's Root Double: Before Crime * After Days: Xtend Edition. The company additionally revealed that it will release Spicy Tails' WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.02 sequel in July, and also unveiled a Narcissu remake project.

Sekai Project is working with the G-senjou no Maou - The Devil on G-String game's original creator and scenario writer to remove the game's erotic content. The company describes the game as follows:

You play Azai Kyousuke, the son of an infamous gangster. You listen to Bach, play God at school, and work part time for your stepfather. But one day a beautiful girl named Usami Haru and an international criminal known as "Maou" appear, and bring with them their cat-and-mouse game of plotting and intrigue.

Sekai Project plans to release the game on Steam this summer, and said it will have more news about the game at Otakon.

Similarly to G-senjou no Maou - The Devil on G-String, Sekai Project is working with the original creator of Chrono Clock to remove erotic content from the game. Sekai Project describes Chrono Clock as follows:

Sawatari Rei is the heir to a multimillion corporation in Japan, and also a mysterious pocketwatch that allows one to travel five minutes back in time. At first, he sets off to simply make his life more fun, like the romantic comedy of his dreams, but that changes when he witnesses a girl fall to her death.

Sekai Project will release Root Double: Before Crime * After Days: Xtend Edition in collaboration with Lemnisca Translations. Sekai Project describes the game as follows:

Rescue squad captain Watase Kasasagi wakes up without his memories in the middle of his most critical mission yet-- a nuclear meltdown at a research facility. In an unfamiliar place and without his years of training, he must rescue the survivors and escape... but could the key to the mystery behind the incident lie in the mind of Natsuhiko Tenkawa, a seemingly ordinary student?

Sekai Project also revealed that it will publish Spicy Tails' WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.02 game this month. The company describes the game as follows:

From the creator of Spice and Wolf, Isuna Hasekura, comes World End Economica. Haru woke up with his life but without his dream. 4 years after the incident, he finds a new cause, as a driven young lady offers him a chance to return to investing and to find justice.

Sekai Project had revealed in March that it was delaying the sequel game from its original May release date. The first "episode" launched in Japan in 2011 followed by the second episode in 2012 and the third episode in August 2013. Sekai Project released the first episode on Steam last year.

Sekai Project also revealed a Narcissu remake project. Narcissu 1st and Narcissu 2nd are available now on Steam, and the company plans to work with original creator Tomo Kataoka to create a new project that will include: a Narcissu 0 remake based on scenarios in the PlayStation Portable version; remakes of Narcissu 1st, 2nd and 3rd (the latter of which is based on Kataoka's story in Narcissu 3rd Die Dritte Welt); and Narcissu 4th with completely new material. Content upgrades include updated scenarios, material from drama CDs and other side material, new artwork, and re-recorded voices.

Sekai Project also revealed that it is publishing California-based developer Love in Space's Sunrider: Liberation Day game. Rita, the singer of the Little Busters television anime's opening and ending themes, will perform the opening for Sunrider: Liberation Day. Sekai Project previously published the developer's Sunrider: First Arrival game. Sekai Project describes the game as follows:

The next explosive chapter of the Sunrider series will chronicle the liberation of Cera. Join Captain Kayto Shields and his crew as they return to where it all began…
Featuring the OP “Sora no Kodoh” with vocals by Rita

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